President Trump is the ‘Ernest Hemingway of Twitter,’ says Corey Lewandowski

Corey Lewandowski called Trump the “Hemingway of Twitter.” (Reuters/AP Photo)

The Old Man and the Tweet.

President Trump's former campaign manager said the Tweeter-in-Chief is a 140-character Ernest Hemingway, after he used the medium to sling vicious personal attacks against MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and her "Morning Joe" co-host, Joe Scarborough.

"We've seen it many times," Lewandowski said of Trump's in-your-face tweets.

"He's taken down his opponents on Twitter many times. You can ask Little Marco or Lyin' Ted or Crooked Hillary ... or Low-Energy Jeb, we all know the names," he added. "When you oppose Donald Trump, beware of his 100 million social media followers."

Whether Lewandowski's comparison of Trump's tweets referred to Hemingway's signature brevity, insults against rival William Faulkner or arrogance remained unclear.

But the self-proclaimed billionaire and the late literary giant, who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" and "The Sun Also Rises," weighed in on some of the same topics across their respective careers. Here's a sampling:

On listening:

Hemingway:

"When people talk listen completely. Most people never listen."

Trump:

"I just realized that if you listen to Carly Fiorina for more than ten minutes straight, you develop a massive headache. She has zero chance!"